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How to install and minimally configure Knot
to act as your home lab's local domain master and slave servers.

If you were a regular viewer of the original Saturday Night Live era, you
will remember the Festrunks, two lewd but naïve Czech brothers who were
self-described "wild and crazy guys!" For me, Gyorg and Yortuk
(plus having my binomial handed to me by tests designed by a brilliant Czech
professor at the local university's high-school mathematics contests) were
the extent of my knowledge of the Czech Republic.

I usually don't like new tech regulations.
One reason is that tech changes so fast that new regulations tend to protect yesterday from last Thursday.
Another reason is that lawmakers tend to know little or noting about tech. One former high U.S. government official once told a small group of us, roughly, "There are two things almost nobody in Congress understands. One is technology and the other is economics. So good luck."

By design, NVMe drives are intended to provide local access to the
machines they are plugged in to; however, the NVMe over Fabric
specification seeks to address this very limitation by enabling remote
network access to that same device.

Bareos (Backup Archiving Recovery Open
Sourced) is a cross-network, open-source
backup solution that preserves, archives and recovers data from all major
operating systems. The Bareos project started 2010 as a Bacula fork and is now
being developed under the AGPLv3 license.

Puppet has long been regarded as
nothing more than an open-source software configuration management tool.
The company has become a standard for automating the delivery and operation of
the software that powers everything around us. Well, this is about to
change. Puppet has evolved and has positioned itself to tackle
enterprise-grade problems. All of this and more, was announced on May
2, 2019.
So what makes this announcement so exciting? I sat down with Matt
Waxman, Puppet's Head of Products to learn more.

CGroups are under constant development, partly because they form the core of
many commercial services these days. An amazing thing about this is that they
remain an unfinished project. Isolating and apportioning system elements is an
ongoing effort, with many pieces still to do. And because of security concerns,
it never may be possible to present a virtual system as a fully
independent system. There always may be compromises that have to be made.